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Cernix

From a full memory card to a link for your client

Ingest a card, cull it, edit the keepers, and send them to your own Google Drive. Free and open source, with no account to sign up for and nothing to maintain after.

No server The only thing it talks to on the internet is your own Google Drive.
No account You sign in to your own Google Drive, and to nothing else.
No telemetry Nothing is counted, and nothing is sent outside your machine.
No catalog Your archive is folders of files. Open them in anything.
No subscription MIT-licensed, free, and yours to fork.
No lock-in Delete Cernix and every photo stays exactly where it is.

Your photographs stay yours.

Cernix is a program on your computer, not a service you join. Ingesting, culling and editing all work with the internet switched off, and the only thing it ever reaches for is the Drive you point it at.

Ingest

Put the card in. That's the setup.

Cernix sees the card within two seconds and copies everything onto your computer, filed by the day you shot it.

Anything it has already taken is skipped, and nothing on the card is ever changed or deleted.

SD, CFexpress and USB RAW, JPEG, HEIC and video Sorted by the day you shot Never takes the same shot twice Originals untouched

Cull

Every frame gets a verdict

Two thousand frames off the card, a few dozen worth sending. Cernix is built for the hour in between.

All of it without the mouse. Rate it, keep it or bin it with a single key, and the next frame is one arrow away.

Edit

Finish the job here.

Exposure and colour, curves, crop, healing, masks, HSL, calibration. Your original file is never written to, so changing your mind in a year costs nothing.

Sync

Your work, on Google Drive

Your photographs land in your own Google Drive, filed by the day you shot them, with your edits alongside. Uploads keep going in the background and pick up where they stopped, and nothing is ever sent twice. Hand a client a whole folder as a link or a QR code.

Filed by the day you shot Your edits go with them Survives a dropped connection Nothing uploaded twice Share a folder as a link

Get your evenings back.

No account, no subscription, nothing to cancel. Read the source or build it yourself.

Code signing is a yearly fee this project does not pay, so Windows will warn you the first time. Choose More info → Run anyway. If you would rather not take that on trust, every release publishes a sha256. Check the download against it.

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